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OCLC joins LOCKSS Alliance
OCLC joins LOCKSS Alliance
*DUBLIN, Ohio, USA, 22 June 2006: OCLC has joined more than 90
libraries from around the world that participate in the LOCKSS
(Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe) Alliance, a library membership
consortium and active user community that provides open-source
archiving software as a means to build digital collections.
OCLC joins LOCKSS in support of its collaborative effort to
explore new uses of the LOCKSS technology to benefit the
community and to build new capabilities for digital preservation.
OCLC will work collaboratively with LOCKSS to explore the
expansion of the LOCKSS technology to operate with different
types of digital content.
"OCLC is proud to join the LOCKSS Alliance," said Phyllis Spies,
OCLC Vice President of Collection Management Services. "The
distributed technical infrastructure and community governance of
LOCKSS enables libraries to take custody of and preserve cultural
and social assets for future generations. LOCKSS is of growing
interest to OCLC members worldwide as they chart a course in
collection development of digital resources."
"This is a particularly appropriate time for enrollment in the
LOCKSS Alliance given the recent coming together of OCLC and RLG,
two organizations that have dedicated much work to digital
preservation," Ms. Spies continued. "We look forward to exploring
this shared model for sustainability of digital assets."
Members of the LOCKSS Alliance are interested in participating in
the development and expansion of applications and services.
Additionally, the Alliance community will help determine
long-term priorities and strategies for digital preservation
software and program evolution.
"OCLC's participation demonstrates and solidifies the
sustainability of the LOCKSS Alliance model for a community-based
archival solution," said Victoria Reich, Director of the LOCKSS
Program, Stanford University Libraries. "By accepting this
leadership role, OCLC will foster broader adoption of LOCKSS so
librarians can cost-effectively build collections and retain
their libraries' essential role as social memory organizations."
LOCKSS' open-source software provides librarians a
low-maintenance mechanism for collecting, storing and long-term
access to a library's own local copy of authorized content.
LOCKSS "boxes" at 157 institutions in more than 20 countries
comprise a peer-to-peer system that automatically cross-checks
content to ensure the accuracy and completeness of all member
archives. Eighty publishers are now participating in LOCKSS or
actively preparing to add their journals to the program.
Founded and based at the Stanford University Libraries, the
LOCKSS Program is funded mainly by contributions from the member
libraries of the LOCKSS Alliance. It has received major funding
in the past from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the National
Science Foundation.
For more information about LOCKSS, visit
<http://www.lockss.org/lockss/Home>.
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